1989 Photo Contest, Spot News, Singles, 2nd prize

Photographer

Anthony Suau

Black Star for Time

06 October, 1988

Clouds of tear-gas dampen the enthusiasm of demonstrators waving the Chilean flag after the majority of the population had voted to end General Augusto Pinochet's fifteen-year rule. In 1989, he lost the first presidential election in 19 years. The dictator conceded defeat, but decided to stay on until 1990. However, Pinochet remained as Commander-in-Chief of the Army until March 1998, and thereafter as a senator for life. His senatorship and consequent immunity from prosecution protected him from legal action.